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Yorktown Day

Page Middle School sixth graders visited Yorktown for Yorktown Day on Monday, which was also the 245th anniversary of the Victory at York-town. This trip was hosted and sponsored by Historic Resources Supervisor Robert Kelly of the Gloucester Museum of History. Students listened to a speech given by the Friends of Rochambeau and the American Friends of Lafayette before laying flowers on the French cemetery. They also had the opportunity to watch the Yorktown Day Parade and hear officials from France and Spain speak, as well as remarks from the National Parks Superintendent Jerri Marr and historian Christy Coleman. Students also witnessed the wreath-laying ceremony, among other patriotic exercises....

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